Archive for month: October, 2010

Technology today offers a variety of ways to present data to our attorney-clients as Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. Follow these 12 strategies the next time you write a medical-related case report to ensure your attorney-clients don’t miss a single salient point.

Every web browser accepts cookies. These are the innocuous little files kept by your browser from websites you visit. Cookies have a lot of uses. They can keep your web travel history so that when you return to a website it will remember you and key your browser to pull up your login and password. They also keep a history of websites you visit and they help other websites serve you advertising based on your past browsing and purchases across the web.

One of the first things all Certified Legal Nurse Consultants learn in the CLNC® Certification Program is the 34 CLNC® services you can and do provide to your attorney-clients. In today’s video blog, one of our CLNC® Mentors shares a brand new CLNC® service she is providing to attorneys. Watch this video to add one more service to your own CLNC® business.

A genius for all times, Albert Einstein once said, "You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it." When I first read this, I contemplated its meaning and thought: It is only a problem if I allow myself to view it as such. Applying Einstein's statement in a practical way to my everyday CLNC® business, I thought, to solve a problem I've obviously helped to create, I need to start with a new and fresh MIND.

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, let me paint you a picture of pure bliss. Two weeks in the Piedmonte and Lake Districts of Italy, starting the trip in Milano for a little shopping to get over the jet lag. Good food, great wine, better company (Vickie of course) and no email, iPhone or contact with the […]

Everything you put into a comprehensive report as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant should be there for one purpose and one purpose only – to inform your attorney-client of the information necessary to win the case. Every opinion, every paragraph, every table, every exhibit, every reference should serve that purpose. Your job as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is to make sure the purpose of each part of your report is clear to the attorney reading it. After all, if the attorney has to figure out what you mean by something or why you included something, he might as well do the work himself.

Tom and I travel a lot which means exposure to lots of different types of meals, over which the quality is often out of our control (sort of). No matter how hard we try we can’t control the amounts of sodium and trans-fats or even get real olive oil for a salad. I have my own vices which include movie popcorn, fried chicken and a good bowl of spaghetti and meatballs.

Some days I love email. Other days, I believe it represents the end of intelligent life on earth. Email, like texting, allows us to communicate in real time without the hassle of actually speaking to another person and therein lies the rub.

Everybody’s favorite social media site Facebook announced a new feature that can make it more friendly and more useful to Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. The feature I like is a new one within what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “groups.”